Whitelaw, Ginny Jiko

Ginny Jiko Whitelaw is the President of the Institute for Zen Leadership. She began her Zen training under Tanouye Roshi and Hosokawa Roshi, and continued under Greene Roshi, from whom she received inka. Whitelaw Roshi was ordained as a priest in the Chozen-ji line of Rinzai Zen in 1996. She is also the President of Focus Leadership and co-developer of the FEBI®, which measures the energy patterns of personality linking mind and body. Formerly the Deputy Manager for integrating NASA’s Space Station Program, she holds a doctorate in biophysics, as well as a 5th degree black belt in Aikido.

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“The Zen Leader is an important and very helpful book in the science and art of leadership. Based on everything from Zen to Integral Philosophy, it outlines 10 fundamental ‘shifts’ or ‘flips’ that can move you from small mind to Big Mind, bringing an expanding capacity of leadership with each one. Give it a try and see for yourself!”
–Ken Wilber, author of The Integral Vision

“A terrific contribution filled with original insights and solutions.”
–Jim Loehr, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Power of Full Engagement

“As most leaders know, the best answers are often found in how one frames the question. In this remarkable book, Dr. Ginny Whitelaw sharpens the reader’s abilities to reframe everything. Offering a genuinely innovative amalgamation of Eastern thought and the world of work, Dr. Whitelaw provides the reader grounding in practical leadership application, just as she introduces the next stretching insight. This book is a gift that keeps on giving.”
–Ed Bernard, vice chairman, T. Rowe Price Group

The Zen Leader does not encourage you to just “be peaceful.” Nor does it suggest that you work harder, faster, or ignore the pressure. Quite the opposite: the book is about using the pressure to propel “flips” in consciousness that create transformational leaders, leaders who create the future with joy and enthusiasm, rather than drive themselves and their people to exhaustion.

Are you a Driver, a Collaborator, an Organizer or a Visionary? Read Ginny Whitelaw’s Move to Greatness: Focusing the Four Essential Energies of a Whole and Balanced Leader to find out.Unbalanced energy patterns create the ineffective buts in leadership style and personal performance. Leaders need to know how to use their strengths and overcome their own barriers. Both success and failure originate in the use or misuse of four fundamental patterns that have been studied over decades: the Driver, the Collaborator, the Organizer and the Visionary. When they are in balance, these patterns create wholly effective leaders who can achieve peak performance.In Move to Greatness, author Ginny Whitelaw explains these four essential energy patterns, revealing the strengths and weaknesses of each. Using these patterns as a map, leaders will discover their natural preferences and learn how to understand people and to lead them more effectively – realizing how to literally move themselves and others to newfound greatness.Finally, a tool and approach that makes intuitive, practical and theoretical sense. – David Dotlich, Founding Partner at Delta Executive Learning Center; author of Why CEOs Fail, Unnatural Leadership, and Head, Heart and GutsContentsAcknowledgments

We’re all familiar with mind over matter. But what about matter over mind? What most of us don’t realize is that there is a world of knowledge the mind can learn from the body. And it’s just waiting to be tapped… Developed by Zen priest and former NASA scientist Ginny Whitelaw, BodyLearning teaches us how to bridge the gap between body and mind. With a personal inventory and an easy-to-follow three step plan, anyone can design a unique, individualized practice. Simple everyday activities such as sports, hobbies, and even walking can become practices. The key lies in doing these physical tasks with mindful awareness and allowing the mind and the body to work together. BodyLearning includes steps to achieve: * Total mind-body fitness * More physical and mental energy * Less conflict and stress in daily life * A sharper, more focused mind * Inner strength and confidence * Increased awareness of senses * A new feeling of unity and wholeness

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